Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-10
PLEA FOR ANARCHISTS
Arguments Submitted by Which The,
Expect Il New Trial.
Leonard SWEET, Associate Counsel /,
the Appeal Takes His Ponderous
Document to Ottawa.

A Chicago dispatch says that Leonard
SWEET. associate counsel in the appeal ~
the condemned anarchists, started n.
Ottawa last night to file his brief for M
defendants before the Illinois Suprems
Court. The document, which consists M
ninety-siI pages of printed matter con
tains about one sixteenth of the Original
record of the evidence of the famop.
trial. Briefly summarized Mr.. SWEET IN
his appeal, claims, that, under the indie,
mepts presented by the Grand Jury, hb
clients are not guilty of the murder Of
Matthias j. Degan, on May 4 last. That
they were tried in times of great popula,
excitement. That much incompete1
evidence was admitted at the trial. The
Revenge" circular, for example, the Al,
gument holds, is irrelyaEt, from the fact
Of its procul emeut having been brought
about by methods in direct violation Of
the Constitution of the United States
The point is made that the manner Of
Of securing and using it against the
defendants was compelling them the
defendantsl to give self-criminating
evidence, which it is also claimed was an
illegal procedure. Among other evidence
admitted as competent were bombs, ful.
minatlng caps. These were unlawfuly
seized, and consequently came under the
head of unlawful evidence. An attempt
is then made to impeach the States
PRINCIPAL witness, Gilmer. His testimony
the defense claims, was wholly uncorro
borated on the ono hand, and, on the
ether, seventeen Witnesses, who swear 10
to facts, the most of which are absolutely
incompatible with the truth of Gilmers
statement The brief then goes on TO
prove that the main witness for the pro.
secution started out with two deliberate
falsehoOds in his statement under oath
that this was sufficient TO inyalidate the
rest of his testimony. No incendiary re.
marks, 1t is asserted, we're made by any
of the defendants. On the contrary, the
evidence of the photographic reporters'
notes are quoted in the case OF Parsons
and others.
PARSONS. FOE INSTANCE,
was convicted of melting to riot and sub
sequent murder the mob on the Haymsr
ket when the crowd which parsons was
NuuFtNSli@ 4AbiAl llAb O4A NiAth AAAtAt N4Nt
we're ready then and there &c take nP arms
against the law and throttle it, the speak
or is quoted from the evidence as reply
ing: You are not. / an not here for the
purpose of exciting anybody, but speak
out, to tell you the facts as they exist
This is all the evidence against Parsons
In the course of his remarks he spoke Of
Jay Could. Some one cried ont, Hang
him." Parsons replied in substance
mo, this Is not conflict between, il
dividuals, but for a change of system and
socialism desires to remove the causes
which produce the pauper and the million
aire, but does not aim at the life Of the
individual" He also said that if Jay
Gould were killed, another or hundred
would come up in his place like q iack-in-
a-box; be also said that, to kill the in
dividual millionaire would be like killing
the flea on the dog, whereas the purpOs.
of socialism was the destruction of The
dog himself-a change of the present
system"
Oscar Neebe was found guilty of muF
der, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for fifteen years. The evidence against
him proved that he had manufactured
bombs. The incentive for the manuiac.
ture of these bombs had never been made
clear, Lingg's conviction would be legal
if he had made ire bomb with the ayowed
intention Of throwing or having it thrown
on the night Of the murder of Deegan'
This fact had not been established.
HE HAD MADE BOMB.
That was ALL Fielden, if he shot at sl
must have fired into three men, to-wit.
Bonfeld, Steele and Ward; yet he LIT
neither of them, and they did not sec
him fire or feel his bullet In contra
diction of the evidence advanced again;.
Schwab, it is argued that the associate
/ editor of the Arbeiter Zeitung knew noil'
ing of the alleged cons piracy. He was
unfortunate enough to have said harsh
things Of capital, capitalists the law and
/ its enforcers. That, in point of taea
/ co nyicted ham of participation IN L'
murder OF an officer, the principal "
( which crime had not been identified. Or
mer had doubtfully, not positively, ldsl
/ tilted Schnaubelt, az on this identlhea
/ ton eight men are drawn into the drag
net of the prosecution and sen
Z
der. the contradictory evidence
witnesses for the prosecution is given
great amount of space and attention
/ Further on. under the head Of Illegal e'l-
dence, the introduction of Most's booA
bloody clothes, and letter Of Most %
I Spies, the combustible TIN cans, the yai'
notices, and the unlawful circumstancS
under which the articles named ws.s
secured, are dealt upon at length. IL Is
claimed, too, that the law of cOnspirac'
WIS misappliei at the trial; that the CON
mission OF one crime can MT be pTo'v-
to establish another crime; That an ao'
/ to be admissible, must be il furtheraD'5
of
A COMMON DESIGN.
La closing his argument Mr. SWEET sa!.
THE truth Is, a man wants more than y.
used to want He may labor, or he ne!